Category: Opinion/Letters

For me, this question turns on one particular section of one particular Colorado statute…

The room fairly exploded with rude comments from members of the audience, directed at Ms. Suh and Ms. Springer…

Reclaim Archuleta had invited Commissioner Medina to be present at the presentation to answer questions.  Commissioner Medina had, in turn, invited County Attorney Todd Weaver to attend the presentation…

When the Saudi’s made their deal with Russia, they ended the exclusive use of U.S. petro-dollars as the means of buying oil…

Developers sometimes use phrases like “middle income” and “missing middle” to disguise the fact that they are actually serving higher income households…

By 1927, the planned U.S. inflation was accomplishing its goal of helping England. Two years later that inflation resulted in the 1929 stock market crash…

The sales pitch seems to be, “If the County becomes our anchor tenant, then we promise to build some workforce housing on the parcel next door…”

We sometimes envision private, for-profit businesses keeping the American economy going.  In fact, here in Pagosa Springs, most of the best paid employees are working for local governments…

Democrats at the Colorado Legislature are increasingly hostile to open government, and they have learned that they will pay little price for drawing a curtain around their work…

“Colorado House Bill 24-1300 proposed to create a mandatory wildfire certification program. From my cheap seats, I see this as similar to the septic transfer process…”

Prices are artificially high due primarily to the downstream effects of financialization. Localized supply and demand dynamics are a mess…

Over the past couple of decades, forestry professionals have adopted the perspective that periodic wildfire is an essential feature of healthy forests…

“Well, I will say, although we don’t have a plan fully developed, I was talking to an East End business owner today…”